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seen. The Academy gave the movie a “Picture of the Year” award, among other honors. There are many good uses of cinematography throughout the film. I will be describing how cinematography is used to enhance what is happening in that particular scene. …

for the Japanese-Canadian families to be faced with internment and then deportation. From the very beginning they must have been faced with utter confusion and must have been left with some very disturbing unanswerable questions. Such as wondering…

South in Contemporary Film, I read about the usage of religion in Julie Dash’s movie, Daughters of the Dust. The way religion is used in this article is not the standard way we think of it, for an example going to church or celebrating Sabbath, but…

in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your Khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.” In Fight club, we meet our main character that comes to us without a name. He can be referred to as, “Jerry”, but his name…

letter to the Sea. In beautiful images, this movie follows the life of two friends who grew up together in Greece - although one of them is Italian (Enzo) and the other French (Jacques). Both have a fascination with the ocean and free-diving. Enzo is…

club The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club film contained a wide variety of behavior and stereotypes. Each person had their on personality and taste at the beginning of the film. I believe that communication played the biggest part in the movie. It shows…

Shut is the sum of its elements and of the ways by which these interact with each other. The most significant elements of the film are color, (particularly red, blue and yellow) sound (such as voices plus external and internal music) and the repeated…

Vacation(1985),though almost certainly produced as "pure entertainment" in Richard Dyer’s sense of the term, presents to the careful reader much more than simply ninety-five minutes of farce. Underlying nearly every scene and every character’s…

movie succeeds on only one mission -- the mission to suck. That's the only way to describe the seventh Police Academy movie. It sucks, so much so that previous entries in the series look like classics in comparison. I can't say I didn't expect it to…

film filled with mystery and suspense. However, Hitchcock left many unsolved issues at the end of this film. In contrast, when comparing Vertigo to more recent films of similar genre’, mysteries are usually always solved and thoroughly explained…